Friday, May 22, 2009

Wyoming Day 6 & 7 - Yellowstone National Park

We loaded up the car Thursday morning and headed to Yellowstone. We had such a great time and Logan could not have been better for us. We were in the car from about 8 in the morning to 8 at night driving to the park and then through the park all day. The sites were amazing and things you couldn't believe. Its amazing the stuff that exist in the US that I am not even knowledgable of. I now know all kinds of things about Yellowstone! We were really lucky to see so many wild animals while in the park. We saw Buffalo, Elk, Sheep, Grizzly Bear - twice, Black Bear, Moose, Black Wolf, Coyote, Bald Eagle, Antelope. It was so neat to see all these animals and pretty close up at that. The weather could not have been any more perfect. It was beautiful both Thursday and Friday. We ended our day Thursday at Old Faithful where we were able to stay at the Old Faithful Inn - it is an amazing 100 year old hotel made of logs, so neat! Here are some pics from the trip!
Logan's first experience with snow!All of us in front of a waterfall! I love the waterfalls, such a relaxing sound too!
Logan hanging out and being a good sport!
Logan in front of the waterfall!
Having some ice cream!
The black wolf!-scary, we were so close to this one!

All of us in front of the Grand Canyon at Yellowsone!

Me and Logan in front of Lake Yellowstone - this was the most awesome view. The Lake is enormous and you have the awesome mountains in the background. It looks like we are in another country!

Me and Levi in front of the lake!

Levi and Logan with some Elk!

One of the Hot Springs - It is so neat the colors that minerals create and look at all that steam - it really stinks too because of the sulfur, but only if you are right on it like they are!

Logan sporting his Yellowstone National Park hat!

Oh...what a long day for the Longs...haha!
Logan and Grandma Sherry with the Grizzly in the background!
Me and Levi with the Grizzly. - seriously...so close!
Watching Old Faithful go off...it is so amazing that this goes off every 90 minutes exactly!
Logan, not so interested in Old Faithful!

Old Faithful again....Look at the beautiful sky!

The inside of The Old Faithful Inn. Look at all that wood!
Me and Levi outside The Old Faithfull Inn....Another beautiful waterfall
Mammoth Hot Springs....
Happy 7 Month Birthday Logan! You are getting soooo big and we love everyday we get to spend with you and watch you grow!

Logan laying on the blanket at our picnic..."Mom, put the stupid camera away and pick me up"!

Our wonderful picnic next to the river!

Look at Logan's cute smile! I love this picture!
Grizzly number 2!

My boys!
Logan and Dad with the buffalo!

Once we left the park we were in Montana so we stopped for this picture going back into Wyoming-we did ALOT of driving the past two days and saw a lot of beautiful sites and country! What an amazing trip! Thank you Bobby and Sherry for taking us and showing us such a great time. It truly is amazing that there are soooo many different terrains in one place. Did you know that the Park is on top of a 60 year overdue Volcano and it could errupt at any time and basically destroy a large portion of the US....crazy!!!!

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